Posted: Sun 06 Jan 2013, 09:24 Post subject:
I lost some files trying to move them to a flash drive

I installed puppy on usb memory and I was keeping there very important documents. On one of my machines with windows I had very important documents (one of a kind).

I tried to move them on pup flash and it was ok, but at the end a message appeared and said that I should reboot the machine because the OS is running with 0 of ram. So I rebooted and .. no files on windows neither on puppy..

And I don't know what to do . I just purchased remo recovery on windows but it can't help me.

Had it been a regular hard drive in vfat or ntfs format, you may have had a chance of retrieving your one-of-a-kind file. On the other hand, unfortunately, Linux drive formats such as ext3 are notorious for having little to none recuperation score. You see, in Linux, we try to make a back-up before we do any change on a drive...

Perhaps try a bit-level reader, or a sector or disk editor (even in FreeDOS if necessary), to dump the remaining contents of your usb drive on a hard drive and then dig in that dumped file with a text search utility to find your file or at least your text. I never had a problem with my usb drives, so my suggestion is only tentative.

May be here is not the place to ask, but if someone faced that kind of problem, is there any suitable software for windows to backup existing folder. Not to recover , because it is not deleted - as I mentioned files are lost in a process of movement.

Posted: Sun 06 Jan 2013, 17:52 Post subject:
Re: I lost some files trying to move them to a flash drive

zmei wrote:

I installed puppy on usb memory and I was keeping there very important documents. On one of my machines with windows I had very important documents (one of a kind).

I tried to move them on pup flash and it was ok, but at the end a message appeared and said that I should reboot the machine because the OS is running with 0 of ram. So I rebooted and .. no files on windows neither on puppy..

And I don't know what to do . I just purchased remo recovery on windows but it can't help me.

Any suggestions?! Thanks in advance!

I would thoroughly recommend trying the PhotoRec application, which you can install (along with Testdisk) using this pet, mentioned in the thread that Tote found above.

I used this to recover some files from a USB pendrive which I had formatted and partially written over with other stuff, and was actually astounded by how many intact files it recovered, some actually from years ago! So I would definitely give this try. Good luck.

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